Create In Me A Clean Heart
March 27, 2009 by Zack Lee
Filed under Higher Ground
Two bachelors were talking one day, and their conversation drifted from politics to sports to cooking.
One of them said, “I got a cookbook once, but I could never do anything with it.”
The other one said, “Too much hard work in it, huh?”
The first one said, “Yeah, it sure was. Every one of the recipes began the same way – ‘Take a clean dish.’”
Our relationship with God is very similar. God says to us, “Take a clean life” and we say, “Hold on a minute! We cannot do that” because “All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God” (Romans 3:23). We may feel overwhelmed because our lives are stained with sin.
Fortunately, God has made it possible for us to be cleansed through the blood of Jesus Christ. We need to have the same plea as David when he wrote, “Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin…..Create in me a clean heart, O God” (Psalm 51:2,10).
Let us have the attitude that says we will do whatever God asks us to do to be cleansed from our iniquities.
“And now why do you wait? Rise and be baptized and wash away your sins, calling on His name” (Acts 22:16).
